January 13 – 17, 2025
- Daegan Miller considers Hannah Arendt’s poetry
- Teju Cole on photographs of the Los Angeles fires
- The myriad abuse allegations against Neil Gaiman
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The Exile of Oscar Wilde, Dublin’s Charming Ghost
Alexander Poots on Northern Ireland's Literary Past
Idra Novey on the Conjuring of Haunting Characters
“To come convincingly to life, characters have to consist of mixed-up inextricable elements.”
The Wizardry of Boz: A Brief History of Charles Dickens on Screen
The New Great Expectations Series Has Big Shoes to Fill (About 400 Pairs of Them)
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Featuring new titles by Idra Novey, Ann Napolitano, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, and More
What Survivors of Trauma Demand From Their Abusers—and the Public At Large
Judith L. Herman on Collective Acknowledgement in the Aftermath of Sexual Violence
Inside COVID-19’s Ground Zero: How China Transformed Into an Open-Air Prison
Murong Xuecun on the Dangerous Intersection of Deceit, Technology, and Totalitarianism
Readings and Conversation with the NBF 2022 5 Under 35 Honorees
With Mitchell Kaplan and Ruth Dickey on The Literary Life
Neil Gross on Three Police Chiefs Who Defied the Odds and Changed American Cop Culture
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
Is Gillian Anderson’s New Anthology of Women’s Sexual Fantasies Too Restrictive?
Ellie Broughton on the Sex Education Star’s Replanting of a Secret Garden
In Argentina, How the Bones of the Dead Communicate With the Living
Alexa Hagerty on a Country’s Continuing Quest for Memory, Truth, and Justice
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“The two accounts speak for the two (dis)United States, one with nothing left to lose and one afraid of losing everything.”
Poetry in Three Dimensions: Sarah Ruhl on Bringing the Words of Max Ritvo to the Theater
“Let this all be poetry!”
20 Years After the Invasion: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on Iraqi Perspectives on the War and What Western Media Missed
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
Jennifer Rosner on Crafting Evocative Historical Fiction That Honors the Past
Natalie Jenner Talks to the Author of Once We Were Home
Just the Right Book: What We’re Excited About This Week
Recommendations from Roxanne Coady and Bill Goldstein
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